I haven’t posted anything very personal on this blog yet, so here’s a taste of what’s been happening in my life. This past December, at the TBQ Anniversary Party/Tweetup, I met a certain Edward White, soldier for the U.S. Army by day, photographer and social media darling by night.  It was the closest to love at first sight that I will ever realistically be, and, much to my happiness, he felt the same.

Fast-forward to two months later, specifically Valentine’s Day.  On this day, he left for his year-long deployment to Afghanistan.  I never thought I would be a military girlfriend dealing with deployment, but when you know, you know, and he is completely worth the wait.  To help document my experiences over the next year on being the significant other of a deployed soldier, I’ve started a 365 Photo blog over on Posterous.  I’m already 3 days down, with at least 362 days left to go, but it has already helped me get through these first few days.

Ed himself is also blogging his deployment via Posterous, so please check it out.  I have contributor permissions for his blog, so I may post something once in a while from the POV of the ‘girlfriend back home’.  His father, Mark White, is also blogging there from a fatherly perspective, so you, dear reader, will get the full deployment experience!

I’ll leave you now with a preview shot from our portrait shoot together with the fantastic Lisa Hoang of Windwardskies Photography!

In short:

Ed’s Twitter

Ed’s Deployment Blog

My 365 Photo Blog

There are a few more announcements of projects and such on the horizon, and I will hopefully be blogging a lot more now, so stay tuned.

Today, Kodak announced that they will no longer be making Kodachrome film. But it will live on forever, partly in Koda’s name, partly in Paul Simon’s song, and as a legend amongst photographers.  I’ve never shot Kodachrome film myself, because by the time I was into photography it was far too expensive to buy and process for it to be wasted on me, but I do have this roll of Kodachrome 64 that I will keep as a memento of a different era in photography.

This photo was processed with the demo version of Alien Skin’s Exposure 2, set to Kodachrome 64. It’s unfortunate that this filter will be a ghost of film past, but at least it’s something?

And on a more serious note, I have stayed up all night following the #IranElection tweets on Twitter, which come in by the hundreds ever ten seconds or so.  As a photographer, the pictures were most interesting to me, as a few started being TwitPic’d in from Tehran.  However, it was someone’s re-tweet of THIS gallery that really caught my interest.

Warning, the gallery includes some very graphic images of the injured, dying, and dead.

From my understanding, the photographer is collecting photographs from people in Iran and posting them to Flickr via email.  Many of the photos have been picked up by the major news organizations around the world.  Not only are they extremely revealing of what’s going on in a country that’s been mostly closed off to the international media, a lot of them are amazingly good pictures.

It almost makes me want to be a heroic photojournalist, but luckily for my mother’s peace of mind, I’m sure I would be far too much of a coward to ever venture into chaotic streets like that.  All I can do is sit back and admire these brave photographers.